"‘The systematic maintenance, improvement and broadening of knowledge and skills, and the development of personal qualities necessary for the execution of professional and technical duties throughout your working life.’"
and that
"5.3 Biennially, the registrar will ask you to provide details of both your CPD plan and record. Both will be subject to review.Failure to submit or incomplete or inadequate, CPD details could result in your removal from the Register."
Pretty stringent rules; if you don't submit proof of voluntary improvement your membership is revoked. Whilst it is clear, at least to this author that CPD is important to an engineer as design practise is constantly reviewed and renewed, such that utilising old knowledge is costly and at worse dangerous
May it be possible to transfer this sort of demand of 'personal development' to our lives. What have we achieved socially, characteristically and in the things we love to take part in? Have we improved? Have we learnt something about ourselves?
I suppose for the secular person a diary will suit or at least just musing with a friend over a slow lowering of the level in a wine bottle. Else if you are Jewish remember that "Shabbat (Saturday) is not just a passive holiday in which we spend time on reflection", the caveat is that although Jews get something regular, familiarity breeds contempt.
Go find a friend and grab a bottle of wine (and preferably find a quiet square) and tell them what you have done this year.
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